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Basheer Jones shares a few words of positive thought. Join him on Street Soldiers every Sunday evening at 9pm Z107.9FM and every weekday morning 6am-9am on 1490AM. Streaming live on www.ZHipHopCleveland.com and www.NewsTalkCleveland.com Join Basheer Jones every Sunday at 9pm on Street Soldiers on our Z107.9FM station. The focus of Street Soldiers is to provide […]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The government is mailing $250 checks this week to seniors who fall into the gap in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage. The first checks will be sent June 10, three weeks earlier than scheduled, to about 80,000 people. The rebates are the first step in closing the Medicare “donut hole.” story compliments […]

DETROIT (June 7) — Federal regulators say Chrysler is recalling nearly 600,000 Jeep Wranglers and Chrysler and Dodge minivans for brake or wiring problems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on its website Monday that Chrysler is recalling 288,968 Jeep Wranglers from the 2006 through 2010 model years due to a potential brake fluid […]

June 7) — Hearst Newspapers announced today the immediate retirement of Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, in the midst of an uproar over her comments that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine.” “Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and […]

More than 1,000 people turned out Sunday to protest an Islamic community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero. Waving U.S. flags and signs that said, “No 9/11 Mega Mosque,” the crowd condemned the proposal to put the Islamic center near the site where nearly 3,000 people died when Islamic terrorists flew planes into the […]

From TheGrio.com: An Augusta, Georgia man is in jail accused of giving his 9-year-old so much alcohol she had to be hospitalized. Jeffery Hickson is now charged with Cruelty to Children. We’re told the 9-year-old girl was spending the night with Hickson when she called her mother crying, begging to come home. When the mother […]

Basheer Jones shares his music moment growing up in commemoration of Black Music Month June 2010. Join him on Street Soldiers every Sunday evening at 9pm Z107.9FM and every weekday morning 6am-9am on 1490AM. Streaming live on www.ZHipHopCleveland.com and www.NewsTalkCleveland.com Join Basheer Jones every Sunday at 9pm on Street Soldiers on our Z107.9FM station. The […]

Funeral plans for Gary Coleman are “pending” more than a week after his death, but his parents have dropped their bid to have the actor’s body returned to Chicago for burial, the man named as executor of his estate said Saturday.   Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price had previously announced a weekend service for Coleman, who […]

Congrats, graduates!   You’re about to ride off into the sunrise. I know you’re traveling light, but the road before you is littered with hidden conditions, terms and penalties that can sink your finances before you get very far. So while you’re packing the sunscreen and the graduation gift money, consider taking along just a […]

    FBI agents raided two homes in New Jersey in connection to the arrests, the Newark Star-Ledger says. Two New Jersey men arrested at a New York airport planned to travel to Somalia to “wage violent jihad,” and also had expressed a willingness to commit violent acts in the United States, according to prosecutors […]

    Frustrated Gulf Coast mayors confronted a BP official during a news conference Saturday after they said requests to meet with high-ranking executives at the oil company went unanswered. The incident occurred as BP’s senior vice president briefed reporters in Mobile, Alabama, about the ongoing efforts to contain the massive oil spill in the […]

With more than 300 youthful Bruins simultaneously cheering, crying and hugging each other across the street, the scene was quieter just outside the sliding doors at the east entrance of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. More here…